My passport application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.

He made his reputation as a legal beagle as a prosecutor before entering private practice.

In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.

Your cat seems very friendly.